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# Anti-LGBTQ+ MP appointed as Polish minister
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/anti-lgbtq-mp-appointed-as-polish-minister/
- Published: 2021-01-29T13:27:59.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-29T11:28:30.000Z
- Description: Tomasz Rzymkowski, a Polish MP who has spoke openly about his opposition to the LGBTQ+ community and same-sex marriage, has been promoted to deputy minister of education.
- Author: Rachel Badham
- Tags: News, Politics, Andrzej Duda, LGBTQ, LGBTQ+ free zones Poland, Poland

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Tomasz Rzymkowski

**Tomasz Rzymkowski**, a Polish MP who has spoke openly about his opposition to the LGBTQ+ community and same-sex marriage, has been promoted to deputy minister of education. Rzymkowski, who joined the country’s ruling **Law and Justice Party** (PiS) in 2019, caused controversy when he compared same-sex relations to beastality ahead of last year’s presidential elections in a [tweet ](https://twitter.com/TRzymkowski/status/1268127848268791811?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1268127848268791811%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1%5F&ref%5Furl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinknews.co.uk%2F2021%2F01%2F28%2Ftomasz-rzymkowski-poland-mp-homophobia-bestiality-deputy-minister-education%2F&ref=scenemag.co.uk)which read: *“On June 28, we will elect not only the president of the Republic of Poland, we will also make a civilisation choice. Will choose Poland, where the marriage is a union of a woman and a man, and Poland where the ‘marriage’ is a union of two men or one man with a goat?”*

He has also referred to LGBTQ+ people as ‘sinful’ and ‘socially harmful’. **Paulina Matysiak**, an MP for the **Left Together** party, described him as ‘dangerous’, telling [**VICE**](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgzmx3/he-compared-gay-marriage-to-bestiality-now-hes-in-charge-of-his-countrys-schools?ref=scenemag.co.uk): *“Tomasz Rzymkowski represents a very dangerous mix of extreme, almost fascist, right with religious fundamentalism, that concentrates most of his public activity on turning people against Jews, foreigners, LGBTQ+* \[people\], *women and the Left.”* Rzymkowski will now be working alongside education minister, **Przemyslaw Czarnek**, who previously [referred](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/poland-appoints-anti-lgbtq-education-minister/) to LGBTQ+ people as ‘abnormal’. Czarnek also awarded medals to anti-LGBTQ+ politicians in the province of Lublin, and openly supports the creation of ‘LGBTQ+ free zones’ in the country.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/duda-poland-600.jpg)

Anti-LGBTQ+ Polish president Andrzej Duda

Hostility towards the LGBTQ+ community has grown since the recent re-election of anti-queer president **Andrzej Duda.** Much like Czarnek, Duda has referred to ‘LGBTQ+ ideology’ as something that needs to be eradicated. Recent developments could make it illegal for social media platforms to censor anti-LGBTQ+ hate speech online, with Polish justice minister, **Zbigniew Ziobro**, dubbing this the ‘Freedom of Speech Protection’ act.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/poland-lgbt-rights.jpg)